Flowering Judas and Other Stories
by Porter, Katherine Anne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
The Modern Library, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1960 The Modern Library. Modern Library No. 284. Small hardcover has grey cloth-covered boards. Title on spine and cover in gold on red panel with gold torchbearer inside gold outline. Gray & white Rockwell Kent ML logo endpapers. Top page edges are red. 285 pages plus Modern Library lists at rear. Foreword by the author. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped. Pages very lightly tanned at periphery but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, and small tears. Color is flaking off of jacket along some edges. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped, showing original price of $1.95. Date determined by Modern Library lists of books in rear of book and inside of dust jacket which date from Spring of 1960: 251 Colette, Six Novels is listed, but Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, is not listed. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13593
- Title
- Flowering Judas and Other Stories
- Author
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Date Published
- 1953
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature,Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature; Short stories;
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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